Supervised attention for answer selection in community question answering
Abstract
Answer selection is an important task in Community Question Answering (CQA). In recent years, attention-based neural networks have been extensively studied in various natural language processing problems, including question answering. This paper explores matchLSTM for answer selection in CQA. A lexical gap in CQA is more challenging as questions and answers typical contain multiple sentences, irrelevant information, and noisy expressions. In our investigation, word-by-word attention in the original model does not work well on social question-answer pairs. We propose integrating supervised attention into matchLSTM. Specifically, we leverage lexical-semantic from external to guide the learning of attention weights for question-answer pairs. The proposed model learns more meaningful attention that allows performing better than the basic model. Our performance is among the top on SemEval datasets.
Keywords
Answer selection, Community question answering, Deep learning, LSTM, Supervised attention
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PDFDOI: http://doi.org/10.11591/ijai.v9.i2.pp203-211
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